HR Digest

JANUARY 15, 2020

Capacity Analytics is the process that is used to analyze the capacity, skills, and abilities of the workforce so that a benchmark can be set and gaps can be measured to identify the outperformers and underperformers.

Human Resources 83

Human Resources Human Capital Long-term Attrition 83

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

Set a benchmark for what percent of salespeople should make their goals (typically 60%–75%). If the percentage making their goals in each of the last several incentive periods is near the benchmark, your goals are probably realistic. But if the percentage is consistently below the benchmark, then your goals likely are too high.

Goal 8

Goal Attrition Benchmarking Team 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One of the costs of a weak or negative culture is voluntary attrition, or employees choosing leave. By investing in culture early on, one would expect that voluntary attrition would be lower, and our research corroborates that. This time, the firm ranked in the top quartile of all companies and handily beat our benchmark.

Morale 12

Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This points to attrition risks that may need attention; these could be crucial employees who are feeling overworked and would be very painful for the organization to lose. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive. Working long hours with a low engagement score.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Attrition Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

When I tried to get to the bottom of it, HR not only couldn't tell me the voluntary attrition rate, they couldn't even give me an employee headcount. The attrition rate turned out to be 45%. We began by measuring employee satisfaction to set a benchmark for improvement. Something was clearly wrong.

Long-term 13

Long-term Attrition Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard 13

HR Digest

JANUARY 24, 2020

Should it be on reducing attrition for people of color? PwC’s Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarking study found that only 5% of companies have mature D&I programs that involve a continuous data-driven process or a multi-year D&I roadmap built on insights. But they didn’t know where to focus their efforts.

Diversity 128

Diversity Benchmarking Analysis Attrition 128

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

It’s important to look for people who strive to benchmark their work with metrics. Project success is more often defined in terms of business metrics: how much did I decrease customer attrition? Ask a prospective candidate about a project they did and whether or not it was successful. You and Your Team. Understanding Analytics.

Metrics 8

Metrics How To Attrition Incubator 8